Ralph #fundie answers.yahoo.com

[Why did the Catholic Church treat Galileo like an idiot?]

They didn't. Go read your history books. The story about Galileo being condemned by the RC church is a 19th century myth. In fact it was the academic scientists who mocked Galileo because they believed in an Aristotelian earth-centred universe and couldn't accept Copernicus' sun-centred idea which had been around years before Galileo. Galileo's mistake was to mock the Pope by quoting him under the name "Simplicianus" as the bad guy in a book Galileo wrote about something other than astronomy.

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